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...longer willing to be locked out of this lucrative trade, other West European airlines are pressing for landing rights in West Berlin. Alitalia, SAS and KLM have been particularly active, but Sabena and Swissair have also put out feelers. Much to the consternation of Pan Am, the U.S. is willing to welcome additional carriers, but Britain is so far unwilling to agree...
Consequently, several of the carriers are now talking to East German officials about using Schönefeld. KLM, in fact, now stops there "on demand" if enough passengers on its Amsterdam-Moscow flight want to get off or on in East Berlin. The airlines' interest in East Berlin is genuine enough, but it might flag if a new agreement permits expanded air service between Tempelhof and Western capitals...
Many did just that, to the delight of travelers. Pan Am, TWA and Alitalia were selling $299 round trips between New York and Rome. BOAC offered a $260 fare between New York and London; Air Canada came in with $282 between Montreal and London. KLM announced its intention to reduce fares by nearly 50% from North America to Eastern Europe...
...chartered three Comets from Kuwait Airways, one Boeing 720B from Ethiopian Airlines and another Boeing from Air France. It will also have six months' free use of a Caravelle owned by Morocco's King Hassan II. Other offers to help have come in from Pan American, Lufthansa, KLM and Russia's Aeroflot...
...similar physical set-up conveys a completely different spirit in Steinberg's alphabetic synopsis of America. The skies are filled with TWA and KLM, set slightly above NBC, CBS and RCA. The IRT comes up from a fat tunnel in the earth surrounded by AFL-CIO and IBM. He plays with these abbreviations to clinch the institutional American panorama...